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October 11, 2012 01:39
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Python script to open a random page from Chrome's history
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#!/usr/bin/env python2 | |
import sqlite3 | |
import os | |
import sys | |
import webbrowser as wb | |
import urllib2 | |
for path in ( | |
os.path.expanduser('~/.config/google-chrome/'), | |
os.path.expanduser('~/.config/chromium/'), | |
'C:\\Users\\%s\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\' % os.environ.get('USERNAME'), | |
'C:\\Documents and Settings\\%s\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\' % os.environ.get('USERNAME') | |
): | |
path += os.path.join('Default', 'History') | |
if os.path.exists(path): | |
break | |
else: | |
print 'Chrome history file not found!' | |
sys.exit() | |
conn = sqlite3.connect(path) | |
c = conn.cursor() | |
while True: | |
c.execute('select * from urls order by RANDOM() limit 1;') | |
url = c.fetchone()[1] | |
try: | |
urllib2.urlopen(url).read() | |
except urllib2.URLError: | |
pass | |
else: | |
wb.open(url) | |
break |
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